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Honestly? For the flavor vs. calories, just get the small steak. It's almost as low as thier diet chicken breast option, but no one thinks of it as a "light" option because its not low-fat.

No clue. It looks to be the size of a custard cup, but I can't tell. How thick is the pastry? How sweet is the filling? You could make a pie that size with very thin pastry and plain apples with only a teaspoon of cinnamon sugar, and it might be as little as 200-300 calories. Or it could be thick pastry and heavily…

The only reason you'd be "lightly active" would be your intentional exercise. If you choose to call yourself "lightly active," then you should NOT log that exercise for more calories. You'd be double-counting that activity.

Check the actual stats on the Pam spray - it's based on something like a one-second spritz. You'll use so much more than that amount that you might as well try a teaspoon of oil or butter, which will taste better, be cheaper, and help you absorb fat-soluable vitamins.

Try going back to not drinking again and see if it makes a difference? IF that's the biggest change in your diet, it could be related, for a number of reasons... Alcohol disrupts sleep patterns. Alcohol disrupts blood sugars Alcohol replaces more nutrient dense sources of calories in the body - what did you stop eating to…

Depending on the sourcing, many of the herbal supplements being imported from places where the FDA can't inspect are full of actual pharmaceuticals, including steroids and/or viagra-type things. An analysis of the FDA database of pharmaceutically adulterated supplements is the focus of a new study by Tucker and…

Just losing another 45 may not get your blazer size down to a 4. Have you ever weighed that amount? Have you ever been a size 4? My mom had a thyroid condition as a young woman. She was 5'9" and 115 pounds -- and still took a size 13, because that was how big her bones were. Your shoulders may not shrink to size 4, your…

I can have a BMI over 30 and my collarbones are still prominent and some of my ribs are visible, but my thighs met and chafed even when I had a dead-on-normal BMI.

Yeah, 2000 is totally sedentary. Agree with the people above who say that a desk job is sedentary, retail job may well be lightly active. You can change your overall setting by walking to work, but wearing a pedometer really revealed to me HOW sedentary your average office job is.

You keep using "lean" in ways that I think suggest you don't understand (or accept? ) that body fat has a purpose, and that there's a reason that women's "average" or "ideal" or "normal" body fat percentage is always more than those numbers for men. Body fat is very sensitively tied to women's hormones, because in a "real…

a serving of crackers is only 5 crackers and is usually at least 80-100 calories. A tablespoon of butter is 100 calories, and a "pat" of butter is about 40 calories. So one cracker with a smear of butter might be 40 calories. Not a LOT, but definitely not nothing.

Apparently if I ever get to my "ideal" weight I will maintain it on more than 1600 calories a day (more like 1800). So if I just ate 1800 a day for a long time I'd get there. If you entered all your info into MFP and it says 1600, then in a perfect world it would work. Why is the world not perfect? Because human beings…

Every tablespoon of oil has 100 calories in it. One tub of dipping sauce can be hundreds of calories.

Research studies that use the terms "sedentary," "lightly active" etc -- generally set "sedentary" at below 5,000 steps. To give you an idea: I have a mostly-desk job, and I get up and run around the office to check in with coworkers, get stuff from the printer, go down to the mailroom, walk to lunch, etc. I also walk to…

1) different scale, different measurement. Your old one could be entirely wrong, the new one could be entirely wrong, BUT what is most likely is that both are a little bit off AND you've probably gained some weight too. 2) American portions are out of control, whether served at home or in restaurants. We came back from…

I'm 5'10" and have very wide hips. To give you an idea of my "frame size," when I was pregnant with my first kid, a lot of people didn't realize I was pregnant until I was 7 months along. Not because I was already fat, but because I really didn' t show, because he didn't need to stick out. With kid #2, the midwife…

When you say you eat your "exercise calories" back - what do you mean? Are you counting your walking and housework? If you are counting your walking as exercise, then you cannot count it as your lifestyle. Look at how many steps you get in a day. How many of them are from activities that you are logging as exercise?…

Furthermore, if you are trying to find a biological justification for eating a certain way, you have to remember that eating to lose weight is not what ANY of these systems are set up to do. They're all finely tuned for a world where supercaloric foods are rare and seasonal. To our ancestors, having 5% body fat was a bad…

Human beings colonized every single continent except Antarctica before we developed agriculture. We moved into every available ecological niche and learned to exploit it in a way that kept us from dying out in that niche. We've lived above the arctic circle, in deserts, in rainforests, on mountaintops. We did that by being…

Sweet, zero-calorie drinks don't make you fat directly. They have no calories. They can't. It's possible that what they do is prompt poeple to eat more than they think they are eating. Human beings are notoriously bad at judging how much they're eating and reporting it afterwards. Everyone SWEARS that they're only eating…

Yeah - the first asnwer is to figure out how much you're actually eating, because at 5'10," you should not stall at 1200. Unless you weigh under 80 pounds, but in that case no reputable doctor would be helping you lose more.

Yep! I googled for a recipe as an example - the one I make is from a very old cookbook from college. There's also a good one that just uses curry powder, as you said - but its NYT cooking and behind a paywall. I use brown basmati for the whole mung beans as well.

60 pounds down puts you towards the lower end of the "ideal" for a 5'6" woman. If you can't get all the way there, but do get to a healthy weight, are you going to be overly disappointed and feel that you weren't successful? (That feeling of "I didn't make it" can contribute to "I failed, why did I bother," and then to…

Mung beans are tiny and cook fast like lentils. You can mix them with rice and they cook in the same amount of time, but they increase the protein and fiber of the overall dish. (Like this:https://turmericsaffron.blogspot.com/2010/06/rice-with-mung-beans-maash-polow.html)

Here you go. This is the risk you run buying diet pills, from a 2015 study in a peer-reviewed journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1541-4337.12173/full

Yep. They reported on an FDA projet that was not widely publicized: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements-are-often-not-what-they-seem.html I've seen another report that found that many of the weight-loss and muscle-building supplements don't just contain substitutes - many contain dangerous…

Advertising in the diet industry is poorly regulated and is full of false claims: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1093&context=jlh

I think I gained about five pounds of retained water in each breast....

Get thee inside me, Satan! (I love freshly baked bread). http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Four-Hour-Baguette

There's some fairly strong evidence that physical activity is also key in all of this. Sedentary lifestyles may matter as much as diet. My anecdata: My family member was slightly overweight but had fine blood sugar levels for years, eating moderate amounts of carbs, mostly in the form of bread and pasta. Then they were…